# stringo
## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstrin.ɡo/
* Rhymes: -inɡo
* Hyphenation: strìn‧go

### Verb

stringo
* first-person singular present indicative of stringere
* first-person singular present indicative of stringare

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *stringō, from a merger of Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“to draw, twist, tie”) (for the "tie, tighten" meanings) and Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, to shear, stiff”) (for the "strip off, prune" meanings). Cognate with strix, striga, strigōsus, stria, strigilis, strigmentum, English streak.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈstrin.ɡoː/, [ˈs̠t̪rɪŋɡoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈstrin.ɡo/, [ˈst̪riŋɡo]

### Verb

stringō (present infinitive stringere, perfect active strīnxī, supine strictum); third conjugation
* to draw tight together, to tie together
* to pull or strip off, cut off, pluck off, clip off, prune
    Synonyms: prīvō, dēturbō, tondeō, nūdō, dēstringō, fraudō, adimō
* to unsheath
* to touch lightly, graze, wound slightly

#### Derived terms

* astringō
* circumstringō
* cōnstringō
* dēstringō
* distringō
* instringō
* interstringō
* obstringō
* perstringō
* praestringō
* reconstringō
* restringō
* strictiō
* strictivilla
* strictīvus
* strictor
* strictoria
* strictūra
* strictus

#### Related terms

* astrictē
* astrictiō
* astrictōrius
* astrictus
* constrictē
* constrictiō
* constrictīvus
* constrictō
* constrictūra
* constrictus
* destrictarium
* destrictē
* destrictīvus
* destrictus
* districtē
* districtiō
* districtīvus
* districtus
* indestrictus
* indistrictus
* instrictus
* obstrictus
* perstrictiō
* perstrictus
* praestrictiō
* praestrictus
* restrictē
* restrictim
* restrictiō
* restrictus
* strictē
* strictim
* substrictus
* superstrictus

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: stringu, strindziri
* Catalan: estrènyer
* Dalmatian: strengar
* Franco-Provençal: ètrendre
* Friulian: strenzi, strengi
* Galician: estrinxir
* Istriot: strenzo
* Italian: stringere
* Ladin: strenjer, strenje
* Neapolitan: strenge
* Occitan: estrénher, estrénger
* Old French: estreindre, estraindre
** French: étreindre
** Norman: êtreindre
** → Middle English: straynen
*** English: strain
**** → Irish: straidhn
* Piedmontese: strenze
* Portuguese: estringir
* Romanian: strânge, strângere
* Sardinian: istringhere, istringi, stringiri
* Sicilian: strìnciri
* Spanish: estreñir, estringir
* Venetan: strenxer, strenzar, strenzer, strenxar
* → Albanian: shtrëngoj
* → English: stress, strict, stringent

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “stringō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 591-2

### Further reading

* “stringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “stringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* stringo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to draw one's sword: gladium stringere, destringere